Steve Schiffenhaus
@SSchiffenhaus
✝️ Grateful Catholic, Father, Husband, Dentist, Founder of The BAARD Institute, Key Opinion Leader, International Lecturer
My son and daughter received Holy Communion & Chrismation today - Glory to God - Christ is Risen - what a beautiful day!
6:30AM - beach vacation - still training - also rocking my customized St. Michael training tee 😉
In all ages there is an attempt to circumvent normative authority by making an inanimate object the authority. Fallen man inherently gravitates towards this spiritual illness - the Idolatry of Inanimate Authority. “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you…
There’s many benefits to this app - at the same time it’s such a cesspool in addition to being a magnet of division amongst random strangers and especially friendly fire with similar interest groups While the discourse helps sharpen my understanding of certain concepts I often…
If you were to travel back to an ordinary Catholic Mass in the 1950s it would not be very much like the highly ornate, beautifully aesthetic traditionalism of today.
Science is the pursuit of truth in the material world not the immaterial - that’s where religion seeks truth - those that only see the material are the ones that only look at the finger pointing at the moon and miss the bigger picture…… it’s good to see young wanting to escape…
Catholics have the true conception of God and properly worship Him as such. Muslims, insofar as they intend to worship the God of Abraham, Moses and Jacob etc. direct their worship to God but have an erroneous conception of Him on a theological level.
One of the biggest “red pill” moments in my conversion to the Catholic Faith from protestantism: Realizing that so much I had been told was “pagan” my whole life (veneration of saints, relics, etc.) was Christian belief and practice DESPISED by the pagans from the beginning.
If the universe is intelligible, and logic/mathematics/reason are real and universally binding, they must be grounded in something that is itself intelligible, necessary, & non-contingent. That’s what leads classical theists and realists to say: they’re grounded in being itself,…
This is why atheism completely undermines science.
The Baptist/Evangelical understanding of John 6 is wild
John 14:6 “Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by Me.” Do Muslims and Jews offer true adoration (Latria) to God? Short Answer: No. Not formally. Their intention may be materially ordered toward God, but formal…
The greatest flaw of modernity is the belief that suffering must be numbed or evaded at all costs. In contrast, the heart of the Christian ethic calls us to face suffering directly, not to escape it, not to enjoy it (which would be pathologic), but to own it, to endure it, and…
“For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.” (Acts 17:23)
A summation of Tim Gordon’s situation yesterday
I’m an ex evangelical. The only reason you can say this is because evangelicals don’t agree on dogma, don’t have a catechism, and 43% of your base doesn’t even believe in the trinity. So of course hearing competing ideas is normal from ex evangelicals. Half of you are nestorians,…
Now is probably both the best & worst time to re-read “1984”
At the Last Supper, Jesus says: “I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until the Kingdom of God comes.” (Luke 22:18; Mark 14:25) In a typical Jewish Passover Seder, four cups of wine were shared: The third cup was the “Cup of Blessing”—the one Jesus identified as His…